Sovestad No. 2 / Sövestad / Sofvestad / Söfvestad

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Apostle or saint? - Church father?

Scene Description: partially visible here to the left side of the angel

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Tynell (1913-1920: pl. XX: 2)

Copyright Instructions: PD

angel - showing wings

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 July 2024 by BSI

animal - mammal - lion - passant - facing each other - 2

Scene Description: only the legs remain on this fragment

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 July 2024 by BSI

design element - motifs - floral - flower - in a circle

Scene Description: or wheel?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 July 2024 by BSI

design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: to the sides of the inscribed flower (?)

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 July 2024 by BSI

design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: very worn; it appears to be a twisted moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 July 2024 by BSI

information

Image Source: digital image of field notes taken 7 July 2024 by BSI

information

Image Source: digital image of field notes taken 7 July 2024 by BSI

view of basin - fragment

Scene Description: Source caption: "endast den söderslagna och starkt fragmentariska cuppan bevarad"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 940920F6] [accessed 14 August 2021]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

view of basin - fragment

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 July 2024 by BSI

view of basin - fragment

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 July 2024 by BSI

view of basin - fragment

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 July 2024 by BSI

view of basin - fragment

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 July 2024 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 09046SOV

Museum and Inventory Number: Historical museum at Lund University, Lund

Church/Chapel: Sövestads kyrka

Church Location: Fårabacksvägen 1, 271 95 Ystad, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 411 610 02

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Skåne, Skåne län

Directions to Site: Sövestad is located off (W) county road 13, in the municipality and about 8 km N of Ystad

Ecclesiastic Region: Lunds Stift

Historical Region: Herrestads härad, Skåne län

Font Location in Church: [the font was found in the churchyard and it now [ca. 1913] in a museum at Lund University]

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Carl stenmästare [Rydbeck]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described and illustrated in Tynell (1913-1921: 54 and pl. XX: 1-3): fragment of the basin of a medieval baptismal font made of limestone and found in the churchyard at Sövestad. The remaing fragment, about 2/3 of the basin, lower part, has two facing passant lions, a human figuree, probably an Apostle, a saint or a church father, an agel showing its wings and what appears to be a part of a wheel or inscribed flower with some foliage on the sides. There is moulding on the lower rim of the basin side. The underbowl appears plain. This basin was obviously intended to be mounted on a pedestal base, now missing. Tynell (ibid.) reports it in the Historical Museum at Lund University ca. 1913. Noted and illustrated in Rydbeck (1936) in her section on the "Carl stenmästare" [cf. infra]. Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 940920F6] as a baptismal font made of limestone in the second half of the 13th century by a regional workshop; the SHM entry notes that Rydbeck [cf. supra] attributes this font to a "Carl stenmästare" but the SHM entry does not endorse the attribution.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 55.500833, 13.797222

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 55° 30′ 3″ N, 13° 47′ 50″ E

UTM: 33U 424023 6151183

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Number of Pieces: one [fragment]

Font Shape: cylindrical

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining [NB: it is not clear whether the hole now visible in the fragment was the original drain]

Rim Thickness: 9 cm**

Diameter (inside rim): 41-43 cm**

Diameter (includes rim): 65 cm* / 59-60 cm**

Basin Depth: 10 cm**

Basin Total Height: 34 cm* / 28 cm**

Notes on Measurements: *SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 940920F6] / ** BSI on-site [NB: measurements of the fragment]

REFERENCES

Rydbeck, Monica, Skånes stenmästare före 1200, 1936

Statens Historiska Museum, Stocholm, Medeltidens bildvärld, 2003. Accessed: 2024-08-23 00:00:00. URL: https://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/sok/avancerad.asp.

Tynell, Lars, Skånes medeltida Dopfuntar, Stockholm: Cederquists Grafiska Aktiebolag, 1913-1921